Karuna says 7,000 families to be resettled

At least 21,000 internally displaced persons, or 7,000 families, are to be resettled in the Northern and Eastern Provinces, according to Deputy Minister of Resettlement, Vinayagamoorthy Muralitharan, alias Karuna.

Addressing a special meeting, on the IDPs, in Batticaloa on Monday he said he had sent a full report to the Defence Ministry, giving details of places and lands where it had allocated land to service personnel. He said the Defence Secretary had said, he had given an undertaking that all military installations, which remain obstacles to the human settlements in the East, would be removed.

All Divisional Secretaries, in the Batticaloa District, who attended the meeting, submitted reports, giving details of displaced persons, now residing in temporary huts.